WIERD -- AND SCARY

As this campaign shifts into year high gear, it not only gets more wierd, but more scary as well. 

After Vance’s offensive remarks to the effect that women who did not have children were not true patriots, there was speculation in the press about how Vance was chosen. Was this a failure by the Trump team properly to vet prospects for the job? I especially appreciated Jamie Raskin’s line, 

"And by the way, JD Vance, do you understand why there was a sudden job opening for running mate on the GOP ticket? They tried to kill your predecessor."

For a while, there was some talk about replacing Vance after his“cat-lady” remarks, but so far he is still on the ticket. (Perhaps his survival is related to his wife's reported assurance that her husband’s remarks were meant to insult only people who chose not to have children, not people who were trying to have children but were unsuccessful.) 

Not only have Vance and his offensive remarks remained out there, Trump seems to have lost all contact with reality. While he boasts about how proud he is to have appointed the three justices responsible for Dobbs, polls consistently show that 65% of the country opposes the reversal of Roe, and yet Trump continues to make statements such as “Everyone,— Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and conservatives wanted Roe v Wade terminated.” Huh?

And the man who wants to be the president of the entire country, and occasionally talks about unifying the nation, while watching the Democratic convention, published on social media his view that Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania was a "highly overrated Jewish governor." (This from a presidential candidate who has Jewish grandchildren and invites antisemites to lunch.)

 And now we come to the king of weird, son of the former Attorney General of the United States and the nephew of the former President of the United States, enter from stage right, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, who may be even weirder than JD Vance. Kennedy, who until earlier this week, was a third-party candidate, has now suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump. In a previous election, Kennedy claimed he had Trump's assurance that in a Trump administration he would have a role in healthcare and drug policy. This time around, Trump has said he will put RFK Jr. on a panel to investigate child health problems. Can you imagine this anti-VAX lunatic influencing decisions about inoculating our children against polio and measles?

Aside from the fact that he claims he has a dead worm in his brain, and admits to leaving a found road-kill bear cub carcass in Central Park, (he had been saving it to eat  the meat, but had to leave it behind to catch a plane) he favors pet emus, one of which was killed by his dog, and the second one remains in his California home with his wife. She says she carries a shovel when she goes into her backyard where the emu lives because the creature has charged her and she fears an emu attack that will lead to the need to defend herself by killing her husband’s pet.

Kennedy had spent millions of his running mate's dollars on a campaign that never got off the ground. He was struck from the ballot in New York, when a judge found his claim of state residency was a “sham”. He had been sued in several other states. Jr. has said he will now return to his wife, dogs, emu, and two pet ravens, at his home in California. He blamed his need to drop out of the race on “censorship.” Wha? Was that the worm speaking, y'think?

Oh yeah, Trump had earlier referred to his new supporter and prospective staffer as a “lunatic.”

Nevertheless, the Trump/Harris race is now rated as pretty much dead even. If you are not terrified by the prospect of a Trump/Vance/RFK Jr./ victory, you should be.

A bientot.

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